Purpose

This Blog will record my reading in leadership. Hopefully I can spur more people to become leaders.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. ~Vince Lombardi

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ~Warren G. Bennis

Currently reading ...

Sanborn, M., The Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary

What I've read ...

Bazerman, M., Judgment in Management Decision Making - 4th Edition

Berg, B., Qualitative Research Methods - 3rd Edition

Burns, J. MacGregor, Leadership

Ciulla, J., Ethics, the Heart of Leadership

Cooke, R., 36 Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Covey, S., First Things First
Covey, S., Principle-Centered Leadership
Covey, S., The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Covey, S., The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Daniels, T., Spiker, B., and Pappa, M., Perspectives on Organizational Communication - 4th Edition

DeKluyver, C., Strategy: A View from the Top

DePree, M., Leadership is an Art

Fox, J., How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization

Harrison, E., The Managerial Decision Making Process - 5th Ed.

Hill, A., Just Business: Christian Ethics for the Workplace

Johnson, C., Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Keirsey, D. and Bates, M., Please Understand Me

Kelley, R., How to Be a Star at Work

Maxwell, J., The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset
Maxwell, J., The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player Becoming The Kind Of Person Every Team Wants
Maxwell, J., 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks

McCall, M. and Kaplan, R., Whatever It Takes: The Realities of Managerial Decision Making

Oakley, E. and Krug, D., Enlightened Leadership

Osland, J., Kolb, D. and Rubin, I., Organizational Behavior Reader - 7th Edition
Osland, J., Kolb, D. and Rubin, I., Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach

Pinder, C., Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior

Rost, J., Leadership for the 21st Century

Saint, S. and Lawson, J., Rules for Reaching Consensus: A Modern Approach to Decision Making

Sanders, T., Love is the Killer App

Schien, E., Organizational Culture and Leadership - 2nd Edition

Schon, D., The Reflective Practitioner

Spears, L., Insights on Leadership

Spradley, J. and McCurdy, D., The Cultural Experience/Ethnography in Complex Society

Sussman L., Deep S. and Stiber A., Lost & Found

Thomas, K., Instrinsic Motivation at Work

Tracey, B., Eat That Frog!

Wilkens, S., Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics

Witherspoon, P., Communicating Leadership

Yukl, G., Leadership in Organizations - 5th Edition